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| The star documentarian looks happy but foolish in a black suit with his trademark cap, holding a giant microphone on this good-time-promising poster for Michael Moore's The Big One |
American documentarian and left-wing pundit Michael Moore has just released his book Downsize This and is heading out on a tour of 50 US cities to promote it, while he visits average Americans, who are being laid off from major corporations.
The Big One is written and directed by great Michigander filmmaker Michael Moore (Roger & Me (1989)).
It follows Moore at a still early stage in his career, when he is still finding and fine-tuning his performance persona style as the 'savvy average Joe', and here ventures fully into the presidential campaign - without having a favorite - and expresses anger and critique of the country's powerful and the corporate elite: He searches out CEOs, who had obviously yet to realize that Moore needs to be stopped, before he gets in the building!
Moore exposes repulsive, amoral behavior from these tycoons and also gets a lot of gold in his camera from normal people, while he also himself delivers many sharp lines. The Big One may be his funniest film.
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1997 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: Unknown
Box office: 720k $ (North America only)
= Uncertain but likely a big hit (projected return of 3.60 times its cost)
[The Big One premiered 6 September (Toronto International Film Festival) and runs 91 minutes. Shooting took place in Pennsylvania, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, including Chicago, Ohio, Michigan, Florida, Wisconsin, New York, Oregon and Missouri. The film opened #19 to a 146k $ first weekend in 33 theaters in North America, where it grossed 720k $. Its only other recorded general release market was France, but the gross from there is unlisted. The budget is unknown but was likely kept small due to Moore's ingenious shooting it mostly during an already planned (and presumable paid for) promotional book tour. Set at a tentative 200k $, the film's theatrical status would be that of a big hit. Roger Ebert gave the film a 3/4 star review, equal in rating to this one. Moore returned with 7 TV documentaries and music videos prior to his theatrical return with Bowling for Columbine (2002, documentary). The Big One is fresh at 92 % with a 7.50/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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